[libreoffice-users] Dependency Issues

2014-08-19 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, I have the 4.3 ppa installed and it's completely broken my package manager. Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/YLcZsUJT I can't even purge, I get this error: http://pastebin.com/tsG5d7w2 Real nightmare as I can't install anything as I get errors. Synaptic is no solution. Ubuntu 12

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
Hey Jonathan, responded in line but the gist is - this is a hobby and I'm not going to spend hours and hours thinking about corner cases/etc... if a book has multiple authors, I'll pick one, if it belongs to multiple series, I'll pick one, if it's a spin off to a main series, I'll just track

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
I'm not horribly worried about name changes ;) Best, Joel On 08/10/2014 07:21 PM, jonathon wrote: On 8/10/2014 6:48 PM, Joel Madero wrote: I decided to do the smart thing and diagram it out Potential issues with the author field: Book One: Author A & Author B; Book Two: Author B

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
of books by each author. Add: AND `bi`.`ReadStatus` = "Read" to the ON condition and you can get the number of read books by each author. That's the kind of thing a database enables you to do much more easily than with a spreadsheet ;o) Mark. Joel Madero wrote: Hi All, So I w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
N `bi`.`AuthorID` = `ai`.`AuthorID` GROUP BY `ai`.`AuthorID` should give the number of books by each author. Add: AND `bi`.`ReadStatus` = "Read" to the ON condition and you can get the number of read books by each author. That's the kind of thing a database enables you to do much mor

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
t; > should give the number of books by each author. Add: > >AND `bi`.`ReadStatus` = "Read" > > to the ON condition and you can get the number of read books by each > > author. > > > > That's the kind of thing a database enables you to do much mor

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
link to a table read status see below Authors Name Series Name of series like Dragons of Pern or Harry Potter Read status started finished wanted Linking should be by query. On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Joel Madero wrote: Just wanted to bump this to see if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-10 Thread Joel Madero
So - I've started with the previous suggestions and am hesitant to change now (put in about 5 hours over the past couple days to learn by doing). Attached is what I have so far. It's pretty basic but just two tables (as you can see) and a form which I made to my likings. Suggestions welcome

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
On 08/08/2014 03:30 PM, m.a.riosv wrote: Hi Joel, please don't think in reading the documentation like wasted time but an invested time. It can really help to learn the basis, which I'm sure will be useful for ever, specially what is learned about SQL. And IMO without at least a quick read not

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
s/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
x27;m reading. I'm a soon to be lawyer and I really just don't have the time to spend reading a ton of documentation (that being said, I love our documentation team, and they do in fact do incredible work). Thanks again! Best, Joel On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Joel Madero wrote: &

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
is to have another field called "Count" and then page count would be Page Count * Count (# of times read)? I'm getting excited about this as I've come up with another cool idea that might be easy. I'm going to link books to the library, so for "next book in series"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
x27;m most interested in for tracking purposes (to meet my goal) and what not. Best, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Paul wrote: > Hi Joel, > > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:53:12 -0700 > Joel Madero wrote: > > > So my thought was to have three tables - > > *Table - BooksRead* > > Author > > Book > > SeriesName (can allow Null b

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
s of formatting, etc... within the document. I'm not sure if there are cases that a 2013 created document simply won't open in 2007 - would be interesting to find out though. Best, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero@gmail.com -- To unsubsc

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
eant that MSO 2013 isn't fully compatible with MSO2010 or MSO2007 despite all three using "docx" - because each version is different and Microsoft just hides this to the average user. Best, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
ies. Possibly add genre somewhere and a randomized "suggest a book" thing. At some point I'd love to figure out how to pull series data from some source so I don't have to manually add books that are in a series. Some series have 50+ books, entering them all manually might be br

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
I guess my first step would be a table that just has: UniqueID Author Book Title Series Name That sound right? I'm going to start after work today. Best, Joel P.S. I won't lose functionality that I have in spreadsheet when using database right? Basically everything you

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
ement interoperability. So - who do we blame for these shinanigans? If we're saying "users just want it to work" - wellI have very little response to that beyond asking users to educate themselves a little, and hopefully blame the right parties for the lack of perfect i

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
ent. Just got a little kick out of this particular email :) Not that I disagree that interoperability is super important - I'd say equally important is convincing our neighbors that there are alternatives that are indeed transparent, functional, and easy to use (odf of course). Best, Joel > &g

[libreoffice-users] Re: Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-08 Thread Joel Madero
Thanks again in advance! On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Joel Madero wrote: > Hi All - > > So I have been using spreadsheet for about 10 years to keep track of a > goal that I set my first year of college (reading a million pages before I > die). That being said, I keep adding thing

[libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-06 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All - So I have been using spreadsheet for about 10 years to keep track of a goal that I set my first year of college (reading a million pages before I die). That being said, I keep adding things to it and it's becoming more and more complicated. This week I decided I wanted to add yet ano

Re: [libreoffice-users] the release 4.3 in PPA launchpad

2014-08-02 Thread Joel Madero
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyphen Printing Problem in Writer??

2014-07-29 Thread Joel Madero
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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-users] Bug Squashing Session in 90 Minutes

2014-07-22 Thread Joel Madero
Yeah bug count is currently sitting at 742 which is the lowest it has been in for over 2 years. With a push this week I think we can drop it to 700 :) Maybe the 500 goal wasn't so outlandish after all Best, Joel On 07/22/2014 08:12 AM, Tommy wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:06:01 +0200, Tommy w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug Squashing Session in 90 Minutes

2014-07-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hey Charles, On 07/21/2014 08:23 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Hello Joel, > > Next time please let us know in advance... > It was a very last minute thing, got up this morning and saw a few people in the chat and said "let's squash some bugs!", decided to announce in case anyone has some time.

[libreoffice-users] Bug Squashing Session in 90 Minutes

2014-07-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, QA is doing a bug squashing session (confirming/closing bugs) in 90 minutes. Feel free to jump in if you have a spare 10 minutes. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreoffice-qa We've seen some great progress this past week or so and we're on the border of being the lowest unconfirm

[libreoffice-users] US Google + Page

2014-06-30 Thread Joel Madero
Don't forget to join to keep up to date with US based events! https://plus.google.com/communities/111758039218283143648 Best, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guid

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: EasyHack - Documentation/User Manual for New Features

2014-06-23 Thread Joel Madero
Hey Alex, > Every other link I clicked in that list produces a 500 Internal Server > Error. > > > Most of the cases lacking documentation appear to be Calc functions. > Writing documentation for them actually requires that we understand what > it is that each function is supposed to do in the firs

[libreoffice-users] EasyHack - Documentation/User Manual for New Features

2014-06-23 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, There are a few new features that have no documentation that we can find (ie no help and/or user manual). We have a meta bug opened: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80430 If you are interested in writing the documentation on any of those please email me or the documentation

[libreoffice-users] Bug Hunting Session - Join Chat Now to Help Find Bugs in 4.3 RC :)

2014-06-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, We have about 15-25 people in the room, would be great if we saw some more over the weekend. To join just click the link below: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreoffice-qa Best, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.li

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Bug Hunting Session Reminder

2014-06-19 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, LibreOffice 4.3 is fast approaching and release candidate 1 just came out. We're doing a weekend bug hunting session to try to catch last minute nasty regressions to give our developers time to fix them before release. Please join us in the quality assurance chat : http://webchat.freenode

[libreoffice-users] 4.3 RC Bug Hunting Session

2014-06-16 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All! Well after our incredible showing with Beta 1 we're going a second round of bug hunting against 4.3 Release Candidate 1 to try to catch any lingering nasty regressions before release. Literally anyone can help and we encourage everyone to jump into the QA chat and see what it's all about.

Re: [libreoffice-users] New QA Easy Hack Task - Determine if bug was inherited from OOo

2014-06-04 Thread Joel Madero
All of them need tested :) And we will continue adding to that list as we move forward with bibisects. Best, Joel On 06/04/2014 01:38 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi. The query in the bug report comes up with 12 bugs. Is there one in > particular to test. > Steve > > On 2014-06

[libreoffice-users] New QA Easy Hack Task - Determine if bug was inherited from OOo

2014-06-04 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, We have a new easy hack available for people wanting to get more involved - very simple task, instructions on the bug report. Thanks in advance! https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79650 All the best, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QA Regular Call

2014-05-29 Thread Joel Madero
At least through August :-D Probably should update the calendar. Thanks! Best, Joel On 05/29/2014 02:09 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Hi Joel > > Le 2014-05-21 17:15, Joel Madero a écrit : >> Hi All, >> >> We have moved our regular calls to every other week on Wednesday'

[libreoffice-users] Bug Hunting Session Day #1

2014-05-23 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All! Day one of our 4.3 bug hunting session was /*incredible*/. Some of the high notes were that our QA channel had 35 people in it when I woke up this morning (crazy!) and quite a few regressions have been discovered and bibisected which is exactly what we're trying to do. We saw about 10-15

[libreoffice-users] 4.3 Bug Hunting Weekend!

2014-05-22 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Don't forget this weekend is our 4.3 bug hunting session! We really need as many people as possible testing 4.3 now so that developers can fix nasty regressions before release (which isn't too far away!). Please join us in the /_*chat*_/: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreoffice-

[libreoffice-users] QA Regular Call

2014-05-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, We have moved our regular calls to every other week on Wednesday's at 1730 UTC. So next call: Wednesday, June 4th Time: 1730 As always we'll send out at least one reminder prior to the call and we encourage users and all contributors to join. The call is both by phone and video through g

[libreoffice-users] Capitalizing Similar to Sentence Structure for Fields

2014-05-19 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Bug report says that it's not possible to insert a field and capitalize like a sentence (ie. first word capitalized, everything else not). Can someone take a look at this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76463&list_id=424995 and tell me if it's currently possible. It seems li

[libreoffice-users] [QA] Bug Tracker Feature Request

2014-03-17 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, So we're getting really into the planning stages of our own instance of bugzilla. That being said we are compiling a list of requests that could improve how users/devs/and QA interact with it. If you have any ideas feel free to add: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Projects/Ideas/Sel

[libreoffice-users] QA Call Reminder

2014-03-13 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All - Public QA call details: *Date*: Monday, March 17, 2014 *Time*: 1830 UTC -- _note the change from previous calls _Looking forward to talking. Warm Regards, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mail

[libreoffice-users] QA Call Punted 1 Week (SORRY)

2014-03-10 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All (again), So due to the late nature and confusion of different countries treating daylight savings time differently we don't have enough confirmed (and have most actually saying definitely cannot make) the new time this week. So the call is being*punted by 1 week*. I will send out a reminde

[libreoffice-users] QA Call Time Changed (1 hour earlier due to US daylight savings)

2014-03-10 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Apologies for the late message but apparently the US and other parts of the world are not synced for daylight savings. Because the US had daylight savings this weekend we are bumping the time up by one hour in terms of UTC - this means for US it's the same time, for other parts of the worl

[libreoffice-users] QA Public Call - 10-02-2014

2014-03-07 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All - Just a reminder that we have a public call on Monday the 10th at 19:30 UTC (that is 11:30am PST). We invite anyone who is interested in ensuring that LibreOffice continues to grow and improve to jump into the call. No programming experience required - you can jump into the call and just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems between LO and CUPS

2014-02-14 Thread Joel Madero
Hi Don, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41524 Looks like that's your report :) So it's known and I think you're even a commenter on it. It's been inherited from OOo it looks like. Best, Joel On 02/14/2014 12:44 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > I haven't had the same issue

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: shaded menu

2014-02-12 Thread Joel Madero
On 02/12/2014 10:07 AM, dpierre wrote: > Oh this is a problem that Unity interface dirt. G! Apparently a bug with Unity: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libindicator/+bug/1045372 Says fix released but I did see this last week when I was testing 4.1 for something. I suggest post

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: shaded menu

2014-02-12 Thread Joel Madero
On 02/12/2014 10:07 AM, dpierre wrote: > Oh this is a problem that Unity interface dirt. G! Yes I've seen this but haven't yet figured out what's causing it. How did you install? Best, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base: MySQL or Mariadb ?

2014-02-09 Thread Joel Madero
On 02/09/2014 11:38 AM, Harvey Nimmo wrote: > Can I use Mariadb as back-end for LO Base or must it be MySQL? For > example, are the connectors compatible or is there a Mariadb-specific > connector? > > Cheers > Harvey > > Looks like it's possible - http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/18521/how-t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scam????

2014-02-08 Thread Joel Madero
On 02/08/2014 01:49 PM, James Knott wrote: > Earl Beavers wrote: >> Have I been scammed? I agreed to a $5 charge but the program would not >> download or react in any way. >> >> I feel like a dunce. > I assume you downloaded from somewhere other than www.libreoffice.org. > If so, you may have bee

Re: [libreoffice-users] Need help with a calculation for an auction

2014-02-06 Thread Joel Madero
Indeed - I was blown away about 10 years ago when I found out how great pivot tables can be and this seems like a great case of using them, here is a simple youtube video in less than a minute and a half shows you how to make one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxC3rVeFxnw Super powerful, very co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

2014-01-30 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/30/2014 07:15 PM, Yadu Kishore wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to install LibreOffice 4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 ? > > Thanks, I don't see why not but honestly I can't test. Best bet is to purge the version you have an then install the debian packages that you can find on www.libreoffice.org/downloa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
d-west, so it would be kind of far to travel just to > say "Hello", but I would be happy to help if there is something you think I > can do. > Ruth Ann, in Ohio, USA > > > On 1/29/2014 8:55 PM, Joel Madero wrote: > > None right now - honestly we're not even

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base Table Relation

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
> Now that the scene is set I'll ask the question. How can I pull data > from several tables, that would be more than two, on one form? Is there > a chapter in the Base Handbook that I need to read more closely maybe? I'm no expert for base but I think you're requesting for a report not another f

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] could we put an end to the grounds for hugging thread?

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/29/2014 06:00 PM, Marc Grober wrote: > Touching Basis meaning grounds for hugging, or the foundation for > something emotionally gripping ? > In any event, this being the user support list (" User support list for > LibreOffice users needing help with a problem") is there some really > impor

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
None right now - honestly we're not even close to that point and that's why this is going so far off topic that it's become quite frankly a waste of my time. I have sent out emails over the last 2 years trying to encourage participation from North American users - we have some, not nearly enough an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/29/2014 05:07 PM, anne-ology wrote: >Andrew, well said. > >Joel, ... [see my comments below, interspersed within Andrew's] Um honestly I don't have the time. Sorry but first line made me realize how far off point this is getting. All in all, this is about the project and what

Re: [libreoffice-users] FYI: LO's security system is compromised, please be careful

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
And for those really interested - we did recommend for those who are really concerned about security to encrypt your drive as it really *is* the way to protect data. Just to give a full picture of the situation. Additionally, we have requested that the OP actually help a bit and track down what ex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
> But the Largest US Cities are generally not on the coast (which does > not make your statement wrong). > > 1. New York City > 2. Los Angeles > 3. Chicago > 4 Houston > 5 Philadelphia > 6, Phoenix > 7. San Antonio Sure if there are events happening that we can attend please let us know. The reali

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Touching Basis

2014-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/29/2014 11:38 AM, anne-ology wrote: >Pacific coast then Atlantic coast then Pacific coast - >yet there's a couple thousand miles in between; >seems to me, if you really wanted our participation - and help, > financial & otherwise - you'd meet somewhere in between .

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.3 Writer Beta Breaks Alternate Search Extension

2014-01-27 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/27/2014 12:19 PM, CVAlkan wrote: > I'm using Writer Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: > be4035d00f37c492494fa7860955b6d0868c7f77 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit Linux > > In the course of trying to figure out how to remove index marks from a > Writer document, one of the things I tried was to loa

[libreoffice-users] We NEED Early Pre-Release Testers

2014-01-27 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, This is really a call out to every single user on the mailing list. If you've made it this far (signed up to a mailing list and can manage your email) you have the skills to help us with some testing. With our tremendous growth we've had an increasing need for users to move from using the

Re: [libreoffice-users] In-Line Headings

2014-01-26 Thread Joel Madero
> This is somewhat doable. See this old tutorial: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=709 > > Apart from being extremely tedious, it forces you to have some white > space ABOVE paragraph with run-in heading. Or, in other words, to have > some spacing between two paragraphs.

[libreoffice-users] In-Line Headings

2014-01-26 Thread Joel Madero
I marked this one as NEW already but want to verify that it's not possible currently: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48459 Can someone get back to me about if there is a method of doing this? Basically to where more than one style can be used on a single line (so you'd have CHAPTER

Re: [libreoffice-users] Just joined the list- users having trouble with gnome panels when using LibreOffice

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/24/2014 07:52 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > On 01/24/2014 10:23 AM, Joel Madero wrote: >> On 01/23/2014 02:39 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: >>> I may have forgotten to mention that I have OpenOffice 4.0.x and >>> LibreOffice 4.1.x on the same computers. >&g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Just joined the list- users having trouble with gnome panels when using LibreOffice

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/23/2014 02:39 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: > I may have forgotten to mention that I have OpenOffice 4.0.x and > LibreOffice 4.1.x on the same computers. > > That may me an issue, I'm thinking now. Yes could be. > > I've set up a couple of users as a test case- one with OpenOffice > 4.0.x only, an

[libreoffice-users] North America Touching Basis

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All! This is just touching basis with the North America team as it's been awhile since we've all had time to talk. The chat has been a little quiet lately, I'm sure everyone is busy but wanted to say hello and to wish everyone a belated happy new year. Hope all is well with everyone and that p

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nikolai Cassanova: Hi, I am having problems with OLE objects in microsoft word documents

2014-01-21 Thread Joel Madero
On 01/21/2014 12:41 PM, nikolaigaunt...@estelacm.sld.cu wrote: > Hi, how can i get libre office writer to work with "docx" file formats > that contain OLE Objects with video or music. Mi profesora siempre me da > file word documents that contain OLE objects and when I click on them they > don't wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights

2013-11-25 Thread Joel Madero
I was asked to forward this to the appropriate mailing list - Alfie I think you'll get a response. My understanding is a) technically yes, b) if it meets certain criteria including keeping our labeling and I believe letting people know that they can get it for free from the website, c) charging

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fantastic Work QA Team :)

2013-11-24 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/24/2013 10:22 AM, anne-ology wrote: CONGRATULATIONS! Thanks anne-ology :-D I think we're all quite thrilled with the direction that QA is going. Our goal continues to be to encourage more people to get involved :) Best, Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@glob

[libreoffice-users] Fantastic Work QA Team :)

2013-11-24 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Last week I sent out an email congratulating the team for getting the bug count down to 1,1,24 unconfirmed bugs (this was down nearly 100 in just a couple weeks). Well, thanks to some incredible effort by members of the team, we're now down to 987 bugs - in just 3 days (yes, 3) we've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bug report -- Libre Ofice version 4.1.3.2

2013-11-23 Thread Joel Madero
Just a heads up that the user list is not the appropriate place to report bugs. If you are asking for advice - good place to be, if you are finding bugs you should report on our bug tracker (bugs.freedesktop.org) as very few developers actually check the user list (they are just too busy to do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Expected Behavior

2013-11-21 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/20/2013 11:39 PM, Ady wrote: Can someone take a look at this bug report and let me know if it's expected behavior. For some reason it seems to be a feature (but I have no clue why someone would want this behavior). https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71842 I currently don't par

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bugs and Issue

2013-11-21 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/21/2013 06:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes, "Save As..." to "Microsoft Office 98/2000/Xp" (or something like that, just not anything more recent than 2003). Regards from Just to continue off of previous statements - Microsoft changes the .docx and .xlsx format so frequently that I've he

[libreoffice-users] Expected Behavior

2013-11-20 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Can someone take a look at this bug report and let me know if it's expected behavior. For some reason it seems to be a feature (but I have no clue why someone would want this behavior). https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71842 Thanks! Joel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Easy QA Task - Need Volunteer(s)

2013-11-19 Thread Joel Madero
rs] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Easy QA Task - Need Volunteer(s) To: Joel Madero mailto:jmadero@gmail.com>> Cc: Libreoffice-qa <mailto:libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org>>, "users@global.libreoffice.org <mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>" mailto:users@global.

[libreoffice-users] QA Easy Task - Wiki Cleanup

2013-11-18 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Yet another easy task that needs done but has sat on my plate for months. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71761 We're trying to cleanup the whiteboard page so that it's more legible (and simpler) for new users while preserving the detailed stuff on a separate "advanced" o

[libreoffice-users] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Easy QA Task - Need Volunteer(s)

2013-11-18 Thread Joel Madero
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Joel Madero <mailto:jmadero@gmail.com>> wrote: We have a really easy task that QA needs done - looking for a volunteer to take care of it and give feedback. Here is the bug report for it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi

[libreoffice-users] Easy QA Task - Need Volunteer(s)

2013-11-18 Thread Joel Madero
We have a really easy task that QA needs done - looking for a volunteer to take care of it and give feedback. Here is the bug report for it: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71755 Can we get a volunteer or two? Any questions can be sent me way or to Florian R. Thanks in advance

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language Translation on LibreOffice

2013-11-18 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/18/2013 07:30 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) What would you like to see translated? If it the menus, pop-ups, dialogues and all the rest then on Windows go to Tools - Options - "Language Settings" - Languages All the various drop-downs there should list all different languages. If your lang

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language Translation on LibreOffice

2013-11-18 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/17/2013 11:53 AM, Michael Kanthal wrote: I have Ubuntu Linux 12.04 and LibreOffice 3.6. Is there a language-translation feature in the 4.1 L.O. release? Thank you. *MA Kanthal* Not that I'm aware of - although I just use the English version I'm pretty active in the community and have ne

[libreoffice-users] Does someone have access to ftp server?

2013-11-16 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, I'm hoping someone will grant me (or test for themselves) temporary ftp access to a server. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981 I need to verify that this is still a problem with 4.1 - bug is super old and I'd like to just take care of it once and for all. I tried a c

Re: [libreoffice-users] cooldown mode

2013-11-13 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/13/2013 03:59 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: Hi All, temperatures have been getting a bit frayed of late. There has been a lot of heartfelt discussion on devs/bugs/volunteers. What is our role in this product! How to volunteer. I had a look at the code - too difficult. Going forward I am going t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Medical -- engineering dictionaries?

2013-11-13 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/13/2013 04:51 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: Could someone point me toward extension dictionaries related to medical or engineering terminology? I seem to remember there being several on the extensions page but can't find much now. Thanks, Tom http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/openm

Re: [libreoffice-users] presentation question

2013-11-12 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/12/2013 08:08 PM, June Newman wrote: I have libreoffice installed on a mac with os x 10.8. If I prepare a presentation and put it on a flash drive, will it play on a windows computer. I don't have the right adapter to connect to a digital projector, and need to use a windows laptop. T

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser

2013-11-12 Thread Joel Madero
run a portable version (e.g. X-LibreOffice) from your own pen (it only needs some 400Mb) Running LibreOffice from a Web Server would be fantastic... Yes, I agree. Kolbjoern https://www.rollapp.com/search?query=libreoffice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CALC convert text to numbers

2013-11-11 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/11/2013 09:30 AM, Denis Navas Vega wrote: El 2013-11-10 07:40 p.m., Paul escribió: On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 02:56:51 +0200 Ady wrote: As a simple user, I see this "hidden" addition of the initial single quotation mark as a _BUG_, and as one of those basic "features" that work poorly in Libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC convert text to numbers

2013-11-10 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/10/2013 07:10 PM, Ady wrote: Why is everyone straying away from the fact that there is a simple extension developed by Cor (one of our brilliant devs) which accomplishes all of this? Just curious if there's a benefit to doing these formula techniques instead of just pushing a button on a ni

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC convert text to numbers

2013-11-10 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/10/2013 07:05 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:43 10/11/2013 -0800, Joel Madero wrote: Why is everyone straying away from the fact that there is a simple extension developed by Cor (one of our brilliant devs) which accomplishes all of this? Just curious if there's a benefit to doing

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC convert text to numbers

2013-11-10 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/10/2013 06:32 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 21:17 10/11/2013 -0500, Jay Lozier wrote: Why not set a cell to the formula =right(len(CELL)-1) which returns the all the characters except for the first. That's =RIGHT(Xn;LEN(Xn)-1) - but that won't strip the single quote mark because it's *not

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC convert text to numbers

2013-11-10 Thread Joel Madero
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/ct2n-convert-text-to-number-and-dates That extension should do the trick - we're trying to incorporate it into the core code but so far you need the extension. All the best, Joel On 11/10/2013 01:57 PM, Oogie McGuire wrote: I have a sprea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 64 bit

2013-11-08 Thread Joel Madero
On 11/08/2013 02:16 PM, mariosv wrote: I love to waste my time as I please. And as I know this is an open project, everyone is free to take their choice about this thread as he/she likes, so I would pleased not being told about what must be my choice. +1, my apologies. All the best, Joel --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 64 bit

2013-11-08 Thread Joel Madero
Clearly the point didn't come across as I hoped. What I'm saying is that our resources are stretched incredibly thin and IMHO this is a waste of time expending so much energy discussing the potential benefits when we have 5,000 or so open bugs that need addressed, probably at least a couple tho

Re: [libreoffice-users] 64 bit

2013-11-08 Thread Joel Madero
I've been trying hard to avoid this conversation as it's probably the 1000th time I've seen something similar on the user list but coming from a developer/QA perspective, I think I can say something brief. The possible gains for these "power users" would probably be small and the amount of time

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Joel Madero
On 10/25/2013 03:22 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 years, using only FREE/OSS, (OmegaT, OpenOffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] duplicate open buttons

2013-10-25 Thread Joel Madero
On 10/25/2013 01:15 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: On 10/25/2013 12:02 PM, william drescher wrote: I just upgraded to Version 4.0.5.2 (Build ID: 5464147a081647a250913f19c0715bca595af2f) Now I have duplicate "open" buttons on the standard toolbar. Both have tooltips that say "Open (ctrl + O)" not

[libreoffice-users] Updating Whiteboard/Keyword Wiki - Need Input

2013-10-22 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, I'm going to be updating the wiki for whiteboard and keyword to make it more legible. There has been talk about taking a minimilistic approach to the wiki, less formal, less "rules" (although we don't have rules, just guidelines), this vs. the "comprehensive, answers any question some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Modified Flag Set / No Changes

2013-10-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hi, 3.6 is EOL - please try with 4.1 and see if the problem is still there. All the best, Joel On 10/21/2013 12:33 PM, David Gast wrote: Hi Perhaps you can help. My students submit examinations done in LibreOffice Calc to a web page. I bundle them up and download them to a Windows XP box run

[libreoffice-users] Reminder - QA Call Public Time Poll

2013-10-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Just a reminder that we are discussing changing our QA public call time. If you're at all interested in joining and the current time does not work, please take a few minutes to look at the options and add your desired time. http://doodle.com/z5xic72ng9q3hz8v7aqhxbgt/admin?#table Al

[libreoffice-users] 10 Oldest Bugs Needing Triaged

2013-10-19 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, These 10 bugs are the oldest bugs that are lingering for triaging, please take a moment and see if you have the skills/setup required to triage them. Please triage directly on the bug (not via email), mark as NEW and leave a comment if you can confirm, if you cannot confirm (behavior

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